St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-18
TWO AWFUL GRIMES.
Nicholas Kill and Hal Reid Ar
raigEed for Murder and Rape,
ReSDectiVe!y

Nicholas Kill and Hal Reid Ar
raigned for Murder and Rape,
Respectively.
All the seats and standing loom i'm
Judge Cory's court room were confiS-
Gated long before Bailiff Patterson be-
gan crying Hear ye! Hear yep yester-
day morning. The announcement that
Nicholas Kill and Hal Reid, who have
separately furnished the two greatest
criminal sensations of the summer, were
to be arraigned, was the cause of the
unusual crowd. The spectators grew
restless while the regular griSt of DRINKS
and other minor offenders were being
disposed of, but when Clerk Ahern
called Nicholas KILL" and the muir
derer was brought in from behind the
screen by Deputy Sheriff Lunken-
heimer, every noise was hushed, and
everybody from the judge, turned their
eyes to take good look at the accused.
Kill wore the same black and red
checked flannel shirt he had on
when arrested Wednesday, and the same
white straw hat and dark trousers. His
hands were Shackled together in front,
and he walked slowly with his eyes on
the floor. Standing in front of the
judges bench, he looked up at the mag
iStrate co0lly, and turned the same in
different gaze on the audience for mo-
ment. The his eyes fell again. The
complaint sworn to by Capt. Bressett,
of the police, charging him with having
willfuliy and with malice aforethought
murdered Jacob Kohn On the night of
Tuesday, Sept. Is, was read to him in
English. The paper was then read to
him again by the German Interpreter.
and Kill leaned over the interpreters
shoulder to look at the writing.
Guilty or not guilty?" said Clerk
Ahern.
Kill started to speak, but the German
interpreter took it up, and repeated in
German: Guilty or not guilty?'
Not guilty." he pleaded.
'Have you employed an attorney?"
asked the judge.
Kill indicated by shake of his head
that he had not. The interpreter con-
versed with him in German for a mo-
ment, and he nodded his assent to waive
preliminary examination. Judge Cory
ordered him committed to wait the eX-
animation of the grand jury, and he was
taken back to jail again.
DIDN'T SHOW UP.
The audience was cheated out of its
desire to see the man who is accused of
raping Maude COmSon. The bad
dCtoI, I1dl aelus was liOI Drought llllO
court at all. His attorneys, ex-Mayor
O'Brien, of st. Paul, and Capt. Hart,
of Minneapolis, were present, and
his father, DIR. A. Nj. Reid, and
his uncle, Hon. A. M. Reid, of
Minneap lis, were there also. When
the case was called County Attorney
Egan asked that it be continued, and
| read the following letter, explaining the
| absence of the complaining witness:
This will certify that Maud V. Comson
| has not sufficiently recovered to leave her
room, and it is impossible for her to appear
| A. w. BRINLEY, NJ. D.
The letter was handed to Judge Cory.
| and he continued the case to Sept. q at
| 2 O'Clock in the afternoon, with the con-
| sent of Reid'S counsel.
The prisoners father and uncle, who
are both wealthy and highly respected
| citizens of Minneapolis, went to the
| county jail afterward and talked with
| the young man. When they came out
| the two went before Judge. Kelly in his
| chambers and offered the bail bond of
$4,000 required for Halls release. The
| court was in special session, and it was
held that the bond would have to be
| given at the general term, which begins
Monday. Hal Reid, when interviewed
at the Jail, said the delay in furnishing
bail had been caused by the absence of
his uncle in the East,